by Shawn Robare | Jun 20, 2026 | Read
My wife Jaime and I received a very awesome gift this past week when one of our buds on Bluesky offered to let us re-home a bunch of his TVGuide doubles, specifically almost the entirety of the 1983 issues. I had a trip digging through all of these old guides, scoping...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 17, 2026 | Read
I’ve been writing about pop culture and collecting for 20 years as of this past Spring and though I’ve skirted around the concept of obsession as a driver of collecting, I’ve never focused specifically on it. Over the past few years, I’ve managed to curb the majority...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 13, 2026 | Read
This weekend the wife and I took the kids to an evening screening of the new Masters of the Universe flick and I was both heartened to see the franchise treated so well, and kind of sad to see that the filmmakers kind of missed the point of one of my favorite...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 11, 2026 | Read
I first stumbled upon the work of Elliott Smith a few years ago while reading the oral history of the New York millenium music scene by Lizzy Goodman titled Meet Me in the Bathroom. Specifically, there’s an anecdote by Stuart Lupton of the band Johnathan Fire*Eater...
by Shawn Robare | Apr 13, 2026 | Read
I’ve always had a complicated relationship with the very singular personality that is William Bruce West. “We didn’t always see eye to eye…” is a phrase that springs to mind, but like the man, it’s more complicated than that. Online...
by Shawn Robare | Jun 13, 2025 | Read
It’s the year of our Gozer-Lord 2025 and I have not had an official taste of Hi-C Ecto Cooler in over nine years. The drought of the spectral, citrus-y nectar is real and there are no heroes in the Coca Cola company advocating for the nerd masses that would love...
